| 单词 | sweetmeat spoon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweetmeat spoon attributive and in other combinations, as sweetmeat glass, sweetmeat pan, sweetmeat pot, sweetmeat shop, sweetmeat spoon; sweetmeat-seller. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of sweets confectioner1591 tragematopolist1656 candy man1835 sweetmeat-seller1895 1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 448 One sweetmeat pan, with a skimmer. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4104/4 2 Sweet-meat Spoons forked. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper viii. 202 Put it into flat Sweetmeat Pots, and tie it down with Brandy Paper. 1857 Househ. Words 10 Oct. 338/1 I see a sweetmeat shop. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 92 It was the wife of the sweetmeat-seller. 1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xviii. 299 The bowls of the cut sweetmeat glasses have the edges engrailed, vandycked, or faceted. 1971 Country Life 9 Sept. 639/2 Exquisite sweetmeat glasses with elaborately cut bowls and sturdy facet-cut stems were made between 1740 and the 1780s. < as lemmas |
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